Daniel Sebastian
Tello Trillo
1808 State St. apt. 306
Nashville, TN 37203
(850)-321-6475
[email protected]
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https://dsebastiantello.wordpress.com
EDUCATION
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. in Economics (4th year)
2011 – present
Research Fields: Health Economics, Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Teaching Fields: Labor Economics and Health Economics
 NSF Graduate Research Fellow 2012-2016
 Health Policy Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Ph.D. Fellowship Program 2011-2016
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science in Pure Mathematics & Economics
Graduated with Honors & Cum Laude
Honors Thesis: “Program Design Effects on SCHIP's Enrollment Rates”
 Florida State University Grant 2005-2009
 Southern Scholarship Foundation Fellowship 2005-2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA-BARBARA
AEA-American Economic Association Summer Program (AEASP)
 AEA/NSF Summer Economics Fellowship
2005 – 2009
2008 & 2010
WORKING PAPERS
• “Effects of Losing Public Health Insurance on Health Care Access, Preventive, and Self-Assessed
Health: Evidence from the TennCare Disenrollment” (Working draft available upon request)
• “Do ‘Cheeseburger Bills’ Work? Effect of Tort Reform for Fast Food” (Submitted) with Kitt
Carpenter
• “Non-linear effects of obesity on wages with a model of selection” with Andrea Moro and Tommaso
Tempesti
PUBLICATIONS
• “Micro y Pequeñas Empresas Bajo el Enfoque Sobre Competitividad: El Caso de la Región ICA”,
collaborator joint with Juan Pizarro, Luis del Carpio, Pia Torres, Daniel Sandoval, Author: Mario D. Tello,
Published by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI), Lima, April 2010.
• “Do people value what they receive for free?” joint with Kerry J. Brennan, Alliance Magazine,
Volume 15, Number 1, March 2010, P.23
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
• Project Associate, IPA-Innovations for Poverty Action, New Haven CT
Research Assistant for Professor Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University.
Jan 2010 – Jun 2011
• Research Team Member, AEA Summer Program (AEASP),
University of California-Santa Barbara,
June – August 2010
• Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Catholic University of Peru,
Research Assistant for Professors Mario Tello and Juan Pizarro
June – Dec 2009
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Statistics (Master’s Level, instructor: Federico Gutierrez) Vanderbilt University, Spring 2014
• Time Series Econometrics (Master’s Level, instructor: Mototsugu Shintani) Vanderbilt University,
Fall 2013
• Development Economics (Undergraduate, instructor: Federico Gutierrez) Vanderbilt University,
Fall 2013
HONORS AND AWARDS
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2012 – 2015
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Meharry Medical College Ph.D. Health Policy Fellow, 20112016
• AEA Mentoring Program Award (Summer 2015)
• Kirk Dornbush Summer Research Grant – Vanderbilt University (2014)
• Faculty/Student Collaborative Research Grant – Vanderbilt University (2014)
• AEA/National Science Foundation Summer Economics Fellowship, summer of 2008 and 2010
• Florida State University Grant 2005 – 2009
• Southern Scholarship Foundation, 2005 – 2009
• Promising Minority Leader – Office of Multicultural Affairs, Florida State University
• Dean’s List 2005-2008
• Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha of Florida
• Phi Kappa Sigma International Fraternity
• Golden Key International Honor Society
CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
• Discussant at American Society of Health Economics Conference (ASHEcon – Summer 2014)
• NBER Summer Institute Health Economics & Development Economics (Summer 2014)
• Southeastern Health Economics Study Group (Fall 2014)
• Allied Social Science Association Conference (AEA – Spring 2015)
• Presented at Vanderbilt Empirical Applied Microeconomics Lunch (Fall 2014, Spring 2015)
• RWJ Fellowship Meeting Program (Summer 2013)
• Northwestern Causal Inference Workshop (Summer 2013)
SKILLS
• Programming: STATA, MATLAB, R, SPSS
• Data extraction (CPS, Household Surveys, IPUMS, COMTRADE, NHIS, BRFSS, NLSY,
QCEW, ACCRA/C2R)
LANGUAGES
• Spanish (native language) • Mandarin Chinese • French